#locust plagues

[doomsayersunited]

Hundreds of cattle have died after being attacked by mosquitoes in Louisiana, where hurricane Laura helped super-charge the insects' numbers.

Nothing to see here, just mosquito swarms so immense that they can drain the blood from a 1400-lbs mammal, killing it.

Hey, what’s that on the horizon?  Do those look like locusts to you? 

[merelygifted]

(via Locusts swarm into crisis-hit South Sudan as plague spreads across east Africa | World news | The Guardian)

[alxndrasplace]

(ESA)  Satellites forewarn of locust plagues

Satellites are helping to predict favourable conditions for desert locusts to swarm, which poses a threat to agricultural production and, subsequently, livelihoods and food security.

Desert locusts are a type of grasshopper found primarily in the Sahara, across the Arabian Peninsula and into India. The insect is usually harmless, but when they swarm they can migrate across long distances and cause widespread crop damage.

(...) Satellites can monitor the conditions that can lead to swarming locusts, such as soil moisture and green vegetation. ESA recently teamed up with international partners from Algeria, France, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Spain and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to test how data from satellites such as ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission – or SMOS – can be used to predict locust plagues.

Full story here

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